A day after a Mpilo hospital staff quarters was razed down by fire, another incident has been reported this afternoon though it was easily contained.

The cause of the latest fire outbreak is not yet known.

Watch below a video of firefighters attending to the scene…

Tinashe Sambiri|The country’s economy cannot be transformed by force or decree, MDC Alliance vice president Hon Tendai Biti has said.

Hon Biti challenged the regime to deal with the political crisis affecting the economy:

“The attempt to physically subdue parallel market is pure insanity and anti-logic.

The parallel market is the antithesis to the myth of stability and a turnaround But it can only be destroyed by re-dollarizing&fixing toxic crisis of illegitimacy.

It’s political economy #ResistDictatorship”

Hon Biti added:

“SI 127 of 2021 proves beyond doubt that this is the most deranged,most fascist,most clueless regime in the world.A full blown Kakistocratic State This lot is an absolute threat to well being of Zim as a nation state. You don’t run economy by force or decree #ResistDictatorship”

Tinashe Sambiri|The country’s economy cannot be transformed by force or decree, MDC Alliance vice president Hon Tendai Biti has said.

Hon Biti challenged the regime to deal with the political crisis affecting the economy:

“The attempt to physically subdue parallel market is pure insanity and anti-logic.

The parallel market is the antithesis to the myth of stability and a turnaround But it can only be destroyed by re-dollarizing&fixing toxic crisis of illegitimacy.

It’s political economy #ResistDictatorship”

Hon Biti added:

“SI 127 of 2021 proves beyond doubt that this is the most deranged,most fascist,most clueless regime in the world.A full blown Kakistocratic State This lot is an absolute threat to well being of Zim as a nation state. You don’t run economy by force or decree #ResistDictatorship”

Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance vice president Hon Job Sikhala has warned youths against being used by the Zanu PF regime to kill innocent citizens.

Hon Sikhala was commenting on the remarks made by a clearly intoxicated Zanu PF youth who openly denigrated President Nelson Chamisa.

The visibly drunk youth hopelessly accused the MDC Alliance of “sabotaging the economy.”

Said Hon Sikhala:

“Kana glue rakurova ne Mutoriro ndozvounoita izvi. Unoita sascum rinotaura zvinopisa tsitsi.

Ndoma youths echimwe chi party chinofunga kuti kutyisidzira ndo politics. Vanhu vatatu kwayi tisu Harare yacho.

Itai Mutoriro mushoma vafana. Munotsva mapapu mukafa”

Following a report of a Covid 19 positive case on 21/05/21 of a college student, investigations revealed that most students on campus were declared as potential contacts due to the learning environment of mixing and shifting classes.

The index case had moderate symptoms and was admitted at Rujeko isolation facility in Masvingo City for observation and symptomatic treatment. The patient is doing well today. Two very close contacts of the index case were tested on 23/05/21 and one came out positive while the other was negative.

Investigations revealed that the index case had no history of travel outside college campus since schools opened and had no visitors. Mass testing for Covid 19 was done, 363 borders and 5 nonresidents. Of the 16 (14 females and 2 males) who tested positive were asymptomatic except one with a mild sore throat.

Cumulative positive cases for Bondolfi as of 21/05/21 =18 cases (all students)There is no confirmed history of travel to Covid 19 hotspot areas and all those who tested positive (contacts).Measure put in place by the government to control the spread of COVID-19 virus.

1. Bondolfi college has been declared as hotspot for the district hence all the 345 students to be put on quarantine for 14 days.

2. Testing of the remaining 345 students on campus and staff as of 26 May 2021.

3. Visit to facility by District rapid response team on the 26th of May 2021.

4. Two isolation areas established at the college and daily monitoring for symptoms.

5. Regular disinfection of clinic, isolation Centre, Quarantine Centre (hostels ablutions since shared), dining hall.

6. Provision of PPE, disinfectants and other required sundries to be facilitated by DHE.

7. No visitors to be allowed into the campus until the situation is stable unless visit is an emergency authorized by responsible authorities.

8. Continued health education session to those in quarantine and those isolated separately on signs and symptoms of Covid 19 and also hygiene issues.

9. EHTs assigned to conduct case investigation for each positive patient.

The MDC Alliance has taken its Tsvaira Zimbabwe campaign to Buhera with party members cleaning Buhera district offices.

The campaign led by Josam Mukucha who is district chairperson for Buhera was not disrupted by the police who reportedly came and parked their vehicle nearby before driving off.

“The Tsvaira Zimbabwe Campaign is in progress at Buhera District offices. Two police officers came and parked their vehicle but later drove away. Mr Josam Mukucha the CCC Chairman was leading from the front,” the party reported.

Below are pictures of MDC Alliance members cleaning Buhera district offices.

Office of the MP Salutes Dinde Residents

Earlier today, as the Office of the MP for Whange Central constituency we attended the public hearing that was hosted by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee for Environment and Climate.

The meeting was held in response to the petition that was submitted to the Parliament of Zimbabwe by the Dinde Residents Association

As the Office of the MP we observed the following among other issues:

1. There was a very good attendance since the local residents turned out in their large numbers
2. The local residents were very peaceful and conducted themselves in the most civil and dignified manner
3. The local residents did they best to articulate their concerns in the most rational manner
4. The local residents spoke almost entirely with a single voice. There was a visible sense of common purpose and unity
5. The local residents made it clear that they are not against any investors or development but they are simply unhappy at the lack of respect and inclusion in the process. Consultation or participation of the local communities was a very essential factor.

We thus hope that the Portfolio Committee and indeed the Parliament of Zimbabwe will in response; do its best to intervene in favour of the local communities of Dinde.

We are looking forward to seeing the Portfolio Committee report especially its recommendations on the way forward.

As the Office of the MP, we would like to congratulate the Dinde of residents and honour them for their clarity and courage.

May God bless the people of Dinde and indeed the rest of Whange Central constituency. Amen

By my hand

Daniel Molokele
MP for Whange Central constituency

Expelled Zanu PF member and former Chivi legislator Killer Zivhu has urged the police to arrest the errand ruling party youth who was captured on video fanning violence and threatening opposition members.

The errand Zanu PF youth identified as Bernard Chiteme also threatened opposition leader Nelson Chamisa.

But Zivhu said Chiteme’s actions could hurt the country and invite more sanctions on the country.

“Arrest this guy we don’t want more sanctions , we have enough already on our tables. Zvichanzi in Zimbabwe law is applied to opposition members only. Towedzerwa more sanctions nokuda kwemunhu asvuta mbanje dzake oga ndokupinda Mudhorobha,” said Zivhu.

By Jane Mlambo| A human rights lawyer and four pro-democracy campaigners have sued Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Hon. Kazembe Kazembe and Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) for RTGS$12.5 million as damages for wrongful and malicious arrest and prosecution on charges of plotting to foment civil obedience in Zimbabwe.

The five namely Douglas Coltart, a human rights lawyer, Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe Secretary-General Robson Chere, Jessica Drury, Munyaradzi Ndawana and Precious Ndlovu were arrested by ZRP officers in April 2019 after they were allegedly caught in possession of a book entitled “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” and charged with participating in a gathering with intent to promote public breaches of peace or bigotry as defined in section 37(1)(a) of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act.

During trial which commenced on 19 August 2020, prosecutors claimed that Coltart, Chere, Drury, Ndawana and Ndlovu plotted a rebellion by gathering unlawfully at Zambezi Roots Lodge in Harare’s Greystone Park suburb on 27 April 2019, where they held a training workshop to strategise on ways of “spearheading a host of civil disobedience in Zimbabwe.”

Prosecutors charged that some Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officers who arrested Coltart, Chere, Drury, Ndawana and Ndlovu recovered some material which were being used during the alleged training and which included a book titled “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” authored by Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, five paper sheets with various messages, some crayons, assorted pens, a cup, point markers and sticky notes among other materials.

But Coltart, Chere, Drury, Ndawana and Ndlovu, who were represented by Beatrice Mtetwa of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR), were acquitted at the close of the prosecution case after a Magistrate ruled that prosecutors had failed during trial to establish a prima facie case against the accused persons.

Now Coltart, Chere, Drury, Ndawana and Ndlovu have filed summons at Harare Magistrates Court seeking an order compelling Kazembe, Matanga, the NPA, Detective Sergeant Lovemore Marwisa, Detective Constable Dennis Muroiwa to pay them compensation amounting to RTGS$12.5 million as damages for wrongful arrest and malicious prosecution, affront to dignity, embarrassment and humiliation.

Coltart, Chere, Drury, Ndawana and Ndlovu, who are represented by Tinashe Chinopfukutwa of ZLHR, are each demanding RTGS$2.5 million from Kazembe, Matanga, NPA, Marwisa and Muroiwa.

By A Correspondent | What was hoped should be an opportunity message for Emmerson Mnangagwa through the leaking of his predecessor Robert Mugabe’s 1985 letter to Britain was when Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba made public the correspondence yesterday. 

In the 4 page letter, Mugabe writes to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sounding as if his administration is providing frontline-state assistance to South Africa’s ANC party, in 1985. Towards the end of the letter, it becomes clear however that Mugabe’s was an agitation over perceived racism in the British premier’s last correspondence, nothing else. 

When Charamba uploaded the piece, it was claimed that Zimbabwe in the 80s provided the ANC with frontline state resources during its fight against apartheid. Video footage however shows both Mugabe and his State Security Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa vehemently refusing to assist South Africa’s blacks. 

Did Charamba succeed in convincing South Africa that Mnangagwa backed ANC in the 80s?

— ZimEye (@ZimEye) May 28, 2021

In March this year, President Cyril Ramaphosa excluded Zimbabwe from his list of countries to be thanked for helping South Africa’s blacks in their fight against apartheid. His position has not changed. 

The full letter is below: 

I write to acknowledge with thanks your letter of 20th December 1985, in which you inform me about your meeting with the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons. I trust that the Group will discharge its unenviable task to the best of its ability. 1 shall eagerly await the results of its endeavour.

I must, however, frankly and honestly inform you that I take great exception to the second paragraph of your letter, especially the portion which reads as follows:

I was frankly dismayed to hear the news that another landmine had exploded in Northern Transvaal on 15 December, this time involving substantial loss of life. I understand that it is your policy not to allow such attacks to be mounted from Zimbabwe and hope that you will continue to use your influence to try to prevent such incidents.”

I write to acknowledge with thanks your letter of 2fie/’December, 1985, in which you inform me about your meeting with the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persona. I trust that the Group will discharge its unenviable task to the best of its ability. I shall eagerly await the results of its endeavour.
I must, however, frankly and honestly inform you that I take great exception to the second paragraph of your letter, especially the portion which reads as follows:
I was frankly dismayed to
hear the news that another landmine had exploded in Northern Transvaal on 15 December, this tune involving substantial loss of life. I understand that it is your policy not to allow such attacks to be mounted from Zimbabwe and hope that you will continue to use your influence to try to prevent such incidents.’

Clearly, what you are trying to convey to me is not only your dismay at the landmine explosion but also your belief that the attack was mounted by the ANC from Zimbabwe and that, therefore, we must have allowed the ANC to use our territory as a base for such attacks.
Surely, with a well-established embassy in Zimbabwe and several thousands of British nationals living all over our territory, you should be in a position to know that we have no ANC, PAC or SWAPO bases in this country. The fact that the explosions have occurred in the Northern Transvaal close to the border with us does not make Zimbawe responsible for them. Perhaps you are also aware that within a few days of the Northern Transvaal landmine explosions there was a serious attack upon an electric station close to Swaziland. And only last week, another landmine explosion occurred close to the border with Botswana. Do you want to tell me that these countries neighbouring South Africa must be held responsible for those ANC attacks merely because of their geographical contiguity to South Africa?
Prime Minister, the ANC is not a Zimbabwean organisation and I have no influence on it. Therefore, the mode, timing, geography and targeting of the ANC attacks are entirely its own matter. But let it also be remembered that the ANC, PAC and other democratic forces in South Africa are waging a struggle for their freedom, a struggle for human rights, which is far nobler than your South African struggle for the sustenance of British economic interests. To me, the morality of their cause surely overrides the morality (in my view, the immorality!) of the British economic case.

I also find it surprising that the Northern Transvaal explosions should have been the first to dismay you. I suppose this is because the victims of the explosions were, for the first time, exclusively seven whites. What about the hundreds of blacks murdered by the apartheid regime within South Africa, and those others murdered by it across the border in Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Mocambique, Angola, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe? Do they move your conscience at all? While white may be more beautiful for the British and their South African apartheid allies, black is also more beautiful for us of African descent !
Please, there can never be any question of my pleading with the A.N.C. to “prevent such incidents”, as you put it. You certainly seem to be unaware of the stand taken by the last summit of the O.A.U. urging the South African Liberation Movements to intensify their freedom struggle. That is the African position! It is also my position! Anyway, Comrade Oliver Tambo, the President of the ANC, lives in London, not in Zimbabwe, and hence it is quite an easy matter for you to express your views directly to him.
The second paragraph of your letter also goes on to state, “but there are quite clearly limits to the South African Government’s tolerance if these incidents continue in the future.” This, indeed, amounts to a threat you are delivering to me on behalf of South Africa. But let me state quite clearly that we (that is, my Government and People) are not afraid of any invasion by South Africa. Whatever its military strength might be in relation to ours, we can never allow it to get away with any criminal act of blatant aggression. You can tell them that! It should not be forgotten that we won our freedom and independence through an armed revolutionary struggle. We remain prepared to defend that freedom and independence through the same struggle!

We, more than South Africa, have come to a stage where we can no longer allow our tolerance to be further stretched, and, certainly, we will not allow South Africa to engage with impunity in acts of direct aggression against us.

I am sure you know that in respect of Zimbabwe South Africa has, since Independence, been trying to destabilise both our political and economic systems. Even as I write you now, South Africa is training dissident and bandit recruits from Zimbabwe at at least two centres. We have thus been more sinned against that sinning. So, please do not add British insult to the injury being inflicted upon us by the Boers.
I am sorry to have to write in this tone, but am constrained to do so by the import of the second paragraph of your letter.

PARLIAMENT OF ZIMBABWE
Wednesday, 19th May, 2021

The National Assembly met at a Quarter-past Two o’clock p.m.

HON. T. MLISWA:  Madam Speaker, the Speaker himself is on record saying that he will ensure that he takes appropriate measures to the ministers who do not attend Parliament.  I am sure the Clerk would agree to that.  He would write letters but he also indicated that appropriate action must be taken.  I think this issue is beyond us Members of Parliament now.  I think the onus lies with the Speaker and yourself to take decisive action once and for all because we are really tired.  It has become a song and the authority that Parliament must have is sub judice and the authority that Parliament must have at all is not there. What more can we do if you have a father and mother and you constantly tell them there is a problem and they keep quiet – we also pull back but this institution can only be respected when the Speaker and yourself take real action.  It is my call that you remind the Speaker that he said he would ensure that it happens.  
Members of Parliament appear before the Privileges Committee for anything that they do – even some of us when there were accusations of bribe with Goddard, there is the Privileges Committee but those who have a task for the country never come to this Parliament.  In a way, it is an insult to this institution, the leader of the institution, yourself and Zimbabweans at large.  So really, may you and the Speaker sit down and take action – hold them in contempt.  I used to be energised about bringing this issue up but I have really got retired.  You try and point that this Minister is contempt for not coming – Parliament administration will come up with an answer and say no, they apologised after Parliament.  We then came up with rules that, what is the cut off time?  The Speaker said 12 o’clock.  Right now, the members of Cabinet who are not here, Deputy Ministers; 12 o’clock has gone and when Parliament ends, another rule comes up.  They send their apologies late.  There is inconsistency in terms of decision making and appropriate action by the leadership.  I would like you to convey that to the Speaker, that we are getting disillusioned and they are no longer serious in their discharge of duties when the country is faced with numerous problems and at the end of the day, the Leader of Government business who is equally here must be able to tell the President on what is happening and so forth. My call once again, may you and the Speaker ensure that this institution is respected by coming up with a serious decision which is constant and consistent with how Parliament must be run.
HON. T. MLISWA:  Thank you very much Madam Speaker for giving me this opportunity as you had promised yesterday.  It is not many people that keep their word nowadays, and I must thank you for that.  Madam Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs on the statement which he made after the High Court ruling in the Malaba matter.  When the matter was still going to approach superior courts as it has done, was it not subjudice, and as the Minister of Justice, would it not be proper for him to do good for the country and step down so that the justice prudence which is expected in this country is maintained?
THE HON. DEPUTY SPEAKER:  Hon Mliswa is that a question or you are suggesting something else.  Please ask your question.
HON. T. MLISWA:  The question is the statement made by the Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs after the High Court ruling on the Malaba case was totally unacceptable in terms of the justice delivery system, and as such, what does he intend to do to instil justice in the system when that statement has totally destroyed the trust and the confidence of this country in the justice delivery system as the father of justice?  I know the Minister might want to say the matter is subjudice, but it is not the matter or application before the courts but his statement which is not before the courts, in case he wants to come round that one.
THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE, LEGAL AND PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS (HON. ZIYAMBI):  Thank you Madam Speaker.  There are those that wrote a letter indicating that they want that statement to be subjected to interrogation by the High Court. So it is subjudice.
HON. T. MLISWA:  The issue the Minister is talking about that there are those who want to write for the matter to go before the courts is not the same as the matter before the courts.   When I say I want to hit you and I do not hit you, it does not mean I hit you.  The matter is not before the courts.  Can he respond because the intention to write and to take it to court is different from the matter before the courts.  I do not have to teach him law.  I am not a lawyer.  The matter is not before the courts.  Can he respond to his statement.  When the matter is before the courts then it is subjudice.  I am glad he said subjudice – hopefully next time he will not comment on other High Court judgements or any court judgements that come.  The matter is not before the courts.  The intention is to take it to the court but it is not there, so how does it become subjudice?
HON. ZIYAMBI:  Thank you Madam Speaker.  I respect my brother Hon. Temba Mliswa but he does not work in my office nor does he stay at my house to know that it is not in court.  I would not come here and say something that is false.  I have papers that were sent to the High Court with the same complaint about the statement and his insinuation is totally wrong. So I will not comment on it because they have started the process and I await direction from the court.  I thank you.
HON. T. MLISWA:  I am glad and I must be professional enough to say if the matter is indeed before the courts, then I withdraw my question.  He had said they intend to bring it to the courts so I withdraw.  I am professional enough to follow the dictates of the law that if the matter is before the courts, I withdraw my question.  May we allow the process to take over.  I think I should be appointed the Minister of Justice next time.  I thank you.
HON. T. MLISWA:  My supplementary question is; Hon. Minister, you spoke about this finance structure with many players, i.e. maize and soya but did not talk about tobacco.  Already, tobacco farmers are complaining of late disbursement of funds.  They sell their tobacco today and their money comes out after two weeks.  I heard on the State media that they were camping for two weeks to wait for their money and these are women who have responsibilities at home.  You know that when a woman is away from home, there is havoc. Musha mukadzi, kana pasina mukadzi hapana musha.  So why would we then say we are disbursing money? I did not hear you talking about tobacco players in that matrix in terms of disbursement of money.  Can you tell us whether the tobacco players are involved in that structure and if not, can you please involve them so that they get their money early especially women farmers.  Thank you.
HON. PROF. M. NCUBE:  I really thank Hon. Themba Mliswa for that intervention, query and question in seeking clarification.  You know tobacco farmers are some of our special farmers especially the small scale farmers and the women farmers that you referred to.  They not only just produce tobacco, create jobs, income for themselves and feed their families but they also earn us foreign currency. So they play that extra role and are a special group of farmers in a way, if you can indulge me to use that word ‘special’.
In the payment process, I am also quite unhappy that payments are taking as long as two weeks as he indicated.  It was brought to my attention and we are dealing with it.  In terms of the payment process, frankly the truth is, we had not included tobacco farmers. Those are the facts because tobacco farmers, we always deal with them through another structure that is led by the Central Bank due to the foreign currency element. We really need the Central Bank.  So I will engage the Central Bank to make sure that they work together with Treasury to resolve this delay in payment but also try to get to the bottom of it – is it the banks that are delaying, is it us the authorities; what is really going on?  We will look into that to solve the problem but then just make it more efficient.
I also hasten to add that in terms of their foreign currency retention this year, it has improved to 60% and I think that is good progress.  We have also said that for all exporters, their retention ratio is a lot more favourable with the order of 80% for those who are performing above a certain threshold.  I am only on the tobacco issue Hon. Mliswa and in fact, I have not yet visited the tobacco floors this year because I have been occupied with other things that I am fine tuning but I can assure you that in the next two weeks, I am going to visit tobacco floors.  You mentioned one issue but there may be more, so it is important for me to be hands-on, visit them and understand the issues and try to deal with them comprehensively.  I thank you.

HON. T. MLISWA: Has the Government not got a deliberate policy to fund indigenous people after the protracted liberation struggle where they were oppressed by the Smith Regime and identify indigenous companies who want to grow their business so that there can be an economic balance after the oppression of the Smith Regime?  Have you not also accommodated white companies in the new Zimbabwe unlike the time of Rhodesia when it was the white companies who benefited? Thank you.
HON. PROF. M. NCUBE: Hon. Mliswa is right.  We do have an empowerment policy which has been re-launched and refreshed –  that exists.  Through this policy, Government has been supporting indigenous business companies but also they have been creating special financial institutions to further sharpen that empowerment agenda.  All they are looking at is the Women’s Bank or the Youths Bank and now we have the National Venture Fund.  All those are pockets of resources that are meant to sharpen the empowerment agenda.
 I think where we could do better is in the area of procurement where again we would want certain groups and SME’s to be supported by Government in the procurement process.  Once someone has got a contract as an SME, it is easier for them to source them funding because they now have an order.  The bank can discount the value of that order and give them a loan.  So, our procurement processes need to speak to that empowerment as well.  I think that is an area that we could improve but he is right that we have been targeting certain disadvantaged groups to make sure that they are supported as we grow our economy to make sure that no one is left behind.  I thank you.

HON. T. MLISWA:  This is a very important question on State land.  There is the Uchena Report which clearly did an investigation on State land.  This report has not been brought to Parliament by the Minister to deliberate on it. Not only that, the Joshua Nkomo Aspindale 49 A and B land which was given to the people by the First Republic, the Second Republic is now going to repossess that land from them yet offer letters were given out by the First Republic.  Is the Minister of State for any province responsible for State land or it is the Minister of Local Government because for example, Hon. Chidawu was in Kambuzuma telling people that this land belonged to Billy Rautenbach and Swane who are whites yet Government had taken this land as State land and given it to the people through the housing cooperatives which are well constituted and well regularised.  Why is Government going back taking State land from people again when it has issued that state land and the Provincial Minister of State being in the forefront of that? Is he the custodian of Sate land, especially Hon. Chidawu who is now taking away land from the people and people are dying because of heart aches and blood pressure as a result of this Second Republic taking land which was allocated to them by the First Republic which remains the same Government?  Is it Government policy to repossess State land from people who benefited from the First Republic?
HON. CHOMBO:  You brought up a lot of follow up questions – you brought up the issue of the Uchena Report which was as a result of a Commission set up by the President.  My Ministry does not have the mandate to release that report. My Ministry is studying that report and we are analysing the cases that should be forwarded to ZRP, those that should go to ZACC and those that we have to handle internally. Definitely, we have been doing that and I think you have seen some arrests emanating from that Uchena Report.
The Billy Rautenbach issue is too specific – you should bring it to my office and I will go through it.  It is not my Ministry’s policy to repossess State land that was allocated in the previous republic.  

HON. T. MLISWA:  The Hon. Deputy Minister did allude to the fact that they were studying it and they were starting to arrest people.  Already, Parliament has oversight and we are asking for our role of oversight.  You cannot start arresting people before we exercise our role of oversight and before the report is tabled in Parliament.  This is not the first time that Hon. Markham has asked for reports.  We now believe that the Minister is involved in the corrupt dealings of some of these land issues because there are many reports which have been asked to come before this Parliament to be tabled and they are not coming. We would want to know what is it that is stopping you from taking this message to the President to say that we need these reports.  The Uchena Report was released and the President read, then it goes to the appropriate Ministry which should then bring it here.  So, do not bring the President’s name into disrepute by saying it is with the President.  He got the report and set up the commission which did its own investigations so it must find itself in Parliament so that we exercise our role of oversight.  You cannot be arresting people before you bring the report here.  We have an oversight role to play and your Ministry is overwhelmed with these reports, but you do not bring them here and the Minister himself is never here.  You are always here but he is always going around giving land but not to answer questions why he is giving land.
HON. CHOMBO:  Thank you Hon. Mliswa for that explosive follow up question.  I am going to check who is supposed to release it and as I said it did not emanate from my office, but I was given as a Ministry which is managing the state land to make sure that I look at issues that address the state land issues.  So it is just a part of the Uchena Commission that we are dealing with.  When we give the Ministerial statement, I will also give a statement towards that.  I thank you.

On the motion of HON. MUTAMBISI seconded by HON. NDUNA, the House adjourned at Sixteen Minutes to Six o’clock p.m.

A drunk man from Pumula South suburb, who accused his aunt of ill-treating him, allegedly urinated on the floor before her and damaged her cupboard.
It was around 11pm last week on Saturday when Mxolisi Ncube (25) came home from a booze and started to make noise in the kitchen, a relative said.

His aunt Zanele Ncube (46) was sleeping in her room and heard her nephew Mxolisi pushing a cupboard, said the source.
She woke up and headed to the kitchen and found her nephew pushing her cupboard.

“She ordered him to stop pushing her kitchen unit. But he turned deaf ears to her advice and pushed down the kitchen unit which had plates, cups and glasses.

“Eighteen plates fell into pieces, 11 cups broke, and 12 water glasses also fell into pieces. He also damaged the microwave. As if that was not enough he stamped on the kitchen unit causing it to break,” said the family insider.

While they were exchanging harsh words, Mxolisi pulled a shocker.

“He urinated before his aunt and also inflicted much pain to her as he urinated on her kitchen unit. Seeing that, his aunt screamed for help as she thought he would rape her,” said a family insider.

She bolted out of the house and headed to a neighbour’s house, said a source.

She was accompanied to a police station where she made a police report leading to the arrest of her nephew.

Bulawayo deputy police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Nomalanga Msebele confirmed the incident: “I can confirm that we arrested a man for damaging a kitchen unit and its contents which is estimated to cost US$110.- B-Metro

A drunk man from Pumula South suburb, who accused his aunt of ill-treating him, allegedly urinated on the floor before her and damaged her cupboard.
It was around 11pm last week on Saturday when Mxolisi Ncube (25) came home from a booze and started to make noise in the kitchen, a relative said.

His aunt Zanele Ncube (46) was sleeping in her room and heard her nephew Mxolisi pushing a cupboard, said the source.
She woke up and headed to the kitchen and found her nephew pushing her cupboard.

“She ordered him to stop pushing her kitchen unit. But he turned deaf ears to her advice and pushed down the kitchen unit which had plates, cups and glasses.

“Eighteen plates fell into pieces, 11 cups broke, and 12 water glasses also fell into pieces. He also damaged the microwave. As if that was not enough he stamped on the kitchen unit causing it to break,” said the family insider.

While they were exchanging harsh words, Mxolisi pulled a shocker.

“He urinated before his aunt and also inflicted much pain to her as he urinated on her kitchen unit. Seeing that, his aunt screamed for help as she thought he would rape her,” said a family insider.

She bolted out of the house and headed to a neighbour’s house, said a source.

She was accompanied to a police station where she made a police report leading to the arrest of her nephew.

Bulawayo deputy police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Nomalanga Msebele confirmed the incident: “I can confirm that we arrested a man for damaging a kitchen unit and its contents which is estimated to cost US$110.- B-Metro

A man from Pumula South suburb in Bulawayo was dragged to court for allegedly assaulting his wife after he found her cooking soya chunks for supper and refusing to give him eggs to cook as relish.

Tuckson Makotore (37) came home drunk and found his wife Grammar Machacha (33) cooking soya chunks.

He told her that he did not want chunks, but eggs.

Emotions boiled between the two as they argued over relish, said the source.

Makotore reached for the tray and took a few eggs to cook, but his wife stood her ground.

In a fit of rage, Makotore grabbed the tray which had 21 eggs and threw it on the floor, causing damage to the eggs, said the source.

He then turned on his wife and pummelled her all over the body with fists and kicked her while accusing her of disrespecting him, said the source.

Makotore took the tomatoes that his wife sells and threw them away.

Machacha sustained a swollen eye and injuries in the ribs, said the source.

The matter was reported at Pumula police station leading to the arrest of Makotore.

Police summoned an ambulance which quickly came and ferried the woman to hospital.

Bulawayo deputy police spokesperson Assistant Inspector Nomalanga Msebele confirmed the incident.

“I can confirm that we arrested a man who assaulted his wife after he found her cooking chunks for relish. We would like to urge members of the public especially couples to try by all means to solve their problems amicably than to resort to violence.

“When they are faced with domestic problems they have to seek counselling from a pastor, or elders in the community or police.”

Makotore appeared before Western Commonage magistrate Shepherd Mnjanja facing a physical abuse charge.

He pleaded not guilty and was remanded out of custody to next week on Monday.- B-Metro

DOES having many sexual partners mark out a man as great in bed?

A man from Kensington plots on the outskirts of Bulawayo left a court reeling in shock after he allegedly boasted that he was a tiger in bed.

While many relationships are breaking up because of lack of fun in bed, Misheck Mlambo is apparently a man who knows his story between the sheets if his bragging is anything to go by.

He boasted that he has many sexual partners and is popularly known as Six in his area because on a good day he can poke half a dozen women.

The tall slim ‘poker’, Mlambo, however, refused to share his secret weapon or even what he drinks to make him “service” six women, some of them married, on a daily basis.

As a serial poker, Mlambo however, seems to have a weakness of being violent when dumped. Two women, one of them married, who dumped him fearing that he could not fully accommodate them since he has multiple sexual partners sued him for harassing them.

In their separate applications at the Bulawayo Civil Court Simeleni Moyo and Siphilisiwe Ndlovu both from Kensington plots claimed the love-rat Mlambo was physically harassing them as punishment for dumping him.

In her application Ndlovu said Mlambo turned violent after she dumped him for having many sexual partners.

“Misheck Mlambo is my ex-lover. We have been in a relationship for three weeks and we broke up after I discovered that he has a lot of women and he does not work. He didn’t do anything for me and that’s why I ended up terminating the relationship. He is now in the habit of coming to my house to assault me. The other day he came to my house at night and harassed my grandchildren. He is always threatening to beat me up because I dumped him,” said Moyo.

She said she was now living in fear of Mlambo hence her decision to rush to court to apply for a protection order so that he can be stopped from harassing her and coming to her place.

Ndlovu in her papers also stated that Mlambo was in the habit of coming to her house to harass her.

“I was in a relationship with Misheck Mlambo and we have since separated but he is refusing to accept that our relationship is over. He is always coming to my place without my consent. I don’t want him to come to my place because I’m married.

“The other day he came and found me alone and asked for water and I gave him. He then demanded to talk to me and I refused since my husband was about to come back from work. He forcibly came into my house and beat me up,” said Ndlovu.

She adds: “After that he then ordered me to follow him and I refused as he had injured me and I was also bleeding. At that very moment my husband arrived and he asked me what had happened. I, however, didn’t tell him the truth since I didn’t want him to know that I was in a relationship with Misheck. I want the court to protect me by granting an order that compels him to stay away from me.”

In response Mlambo caused a rumpus in court when he boasted that he was a tiger in bed

“We were in a relationship and she (Simeleni Moyo) knew I had many wives. Where I stay, they call me Six because I have many wives and I can entertain six women per day. She also dates many men who visit her at night and that was the source of our misunderstanding,” said Mlambo.

Turning to Ndlovu’s accusations, Mlambo said: “Yes, I was in a relationship with her and it ended after we fought. If she wants me to stay away from her, I will do that.”

A seemingly annoyed presiding magistrate Nkosinomusa Ncube charged Mlambo to stay away from Moyo and Ndlovu saying he should not be “jealous” of them since he had many women who were entertaining him.- B-Metro

By Tinashe Sambiri | While the Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa has been silent on Tapiwa Makore’s skull, he is exerting pressure on Britain to return Mbuya Nehanda’s head.

This has raised eyebrows as many suspect the cornered Zanu PF leader wants to perform rituals before the 2023 polls.

Mr Mnangagwa is also clandestinely pushing for the exhumation of his former boss Robert Mugabe’s remains for reburial at the National Heroes Acre.

Mr Mnangagwa, quoted by a State run daily paper said:

“We shall, however, continue to discuss to bring back her skull which was taken to the United Kingdom along others.”

Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe also said:

“Sadly, the remains of Mbuya Nehanda are yet to be repatriated so that proper burial can be accorded in line with our cultural norms and values.

However, I am happy to advise that our efforts to ensure that the remains are repatriated to the country are in progress.”

Zimbabwe has received 20 ambulances and ancillary medical equipment from the African Development Bank and the Government of India. 

Speaking at the handover yesterday, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, who is also the Minister of Health and Child Care said the institutions had a role to play in enhancing the country’s capacity to respond to emergencies.

The Vice President said the donation of ambulances, which would be distributed to some district, provincial, central hospitals and selected toll gates along major highways, was the first step in the attainment of an effective ambulance system that was expected to mainly focus on attendance to emergencies and disasters.

He said the country still needed more ambulances to increase its capacity to respond to all emergencies and disasters that could cost lives.

“Ideally, all our toll-gates should have base stations to accommodate ambulances that respond to occurrences of road traffic accidents and other emergencies along our major highways.

“It is this vision that spurs my Ministry to request Zinara to provide space for base stations at their tollgate sites. My ministry also requests Zinara to consider donating ambulances, as a plough back gesture to our motorists, passengers and other road users who may require medical attention,” he said.

He said the Association of Health Care Funders of Zimbabwe should also consider ring-fencing public health interests among their corporate social responsibilities.

This would see medical aid societies also taking part in enhancing casualty collection capacity to save lives.

“The (Insurance and Pensions) Commission controls all operations of insurance companies, some of which are mandated to levy third party vehicle insurance schemes on all serviceable vehicles in Zimbabwe. I request you to consider lending a hand for the purposes of ramping up our emergency response capacity.”

VP Chiwenga said Government on its part, would purchase 100 more ambulances to enhance the collection capacity. Part of the fleet was expected in the country by the end of June.

“Casualty collection is a key capability in modern public health systems designed to mitigate effects of pandemics such as Covid-19, endemic-prone diseases, disasters such as Cyclone Idai, communicable and non-communicable diseases, maternal emergencies and road traffic accidents.

“The guaranteed availability of purpose-built patients’ transport goes a long way in the reduction of mortality rates in the country,” he said.

Part of the expansion and modernisation of the healthcare system included establishment of centralised repair and maintenance workshops to ensure the ambulance fleet was always serviced and roadworthy.

Indian Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Vijay Khanduja said the relationship between the two countries was a long one based on mutual trust, respect and solidarity.

“It is an honour and privilege for me to hand over a consignment of 10 ambulances as a gift from India to Zimbabwe which had been promised during the visit of the Vice President of India in 2018.

“We hope that the ambulances will strengthen the healthcare system in Zimbabwe and make the bilateral relationship more ambulatory, dynamic and strong,” he said.

AfDB country representative Ms Moono Mupotola said the donation, made through the World Health Organisation (WHO) was part of the bank’s support to Zimbabwe.

She said the project, cost US$15 million, was approved last year and would assist millions of Zimbabweans.- state media

Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has denounced the killing of innocent civilians in Uganda.

On Wednesday President Chamisa retweeted a statement released by the MDC Alliance:

“We stand with the people of Uganda who have endured gross human rights violations since the disputed 2021 elections. We urge the regime in Uganda to stop the atrocities & unlawful killings.

We stand with the people of Ethiopia & hope for an end to the conflict in the Tigray region.

The need for justice & accountability for atrocities committed is urgent. May the guns be silenced.”

President Chamisa added :
“Freedom is a gift from God and Africa is our heritage. We will fight for both. Happy New Africa”

Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance Youth Assembly leader, Obey Sithole has challenged the Zanu PF regime to release jailed political activist Makomborero Haruvizishe.

Writing on Facebook on Wednesday Sithole boldly declared:

“Sunungura Mako!!!
His freedom matters to us all, an attack to him is an attack to all of us.
Zimbabwe shall be free.”

Zimbabwean youth
Simbarashe Elias has also urged young people to support President Chamisa’s vision to restore the nation’s dignity and prosperity by registering to vote in numbers:

” THE YOUTH OF ZIMBABWE I GREET YOU ALL IN JESUS NAME.

I have come to beg you to register to vote- we have to create a future we all want in Zimbabwe come 2023.

Let’s give voting another chance. I’m very sure if we register to vote and then vote all of us youths. I’m sure they will not be able to rig the elections we need over 6 million votes from the Youths only for President Nelson Chamisa.

We can choose what we want for our country and I’m saying let’s start by registering. CHANGE IS COMING AND WE CAN MAKE CHANGE TO COME LET’S DO IT…

Tinashe Sambiri|While the Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa has been silent on Tapiwa Makore’s skull, he is exerting pressure on Britain to return Mbuya Nehanda’s head…

This has raised eyebrows as many suspect the cornered Zanu PF leader wants to perform rituals before the 2023 polls.

Mr Mnangagwa is also clandestinely pushing for the exhumation of his former boss Robert Mugabe’s remains for reburial at the National Heroes Acre.

Mr Mnangagwa, quoted by a State run daily paper said:

“We shall, however, continue to discuss to bring back her skull which was taken to the United Kingdom along others.”

Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe also said:

“Sadly, the remains of Mbuya Nehanda are yet to be repatriated so that proper burial can be accorded in line with our cultural norms and values.

However, I am happy to advise that our efforts to ensure that the remains are repatriated to the country are in progress.”

Tinashe Sambiri|While the Zanu PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa has been silent on Tapiwa Makore’s skull, he is exerting pressure on Britain to return Mbuya Nehanda’s head…

This has raised eyebrows as many suspect the cornered Zanu PF leader wants to perform rituals before the 2023 polls.

Mr Mnangagwa is also clandestinely pushing for the exhumation of his former boss Robert Mugabe’s remains for reburial at the National Heroes Acre.

Mr Mnangagwa, quoted by a State run daily paper said:

“We shall, however, continue to discuss to bring back her skull which was taken to the United Kingdom along others.”

Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Kazembe Kazembe also said:

“Sadly, the remains of Mbuya Nehanda are yet to be repatriated so that proper burial can be accorded in line with our cultural norms and values.

However, I am happy to advise that our efforts to ensure that the remains are repatriated to the country are in progress.”

BY A CORRESPONDENT| A former City of Harare Councilor Norman Markham has raised serious allegations of state capture by a controversial land baron Kenneth Raydon Sharpe who is accused of corrupting the entire government structure resulting in him being awarded vast tracts of land.

In his answering affidavit to an ongoing court challenge to bar City of Harare from proceeding to dish prime city land to Sharpe as payment for the work done on the construction of Airport Road, Markham who is also Harare North legislator said Sharpe’s Augur Investments through one Tatiana Aleshina had extracted so much influence even from President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s office to push the illegal acquisition of over 270 hectares of land at stand number 653 Pomona Township.

“An agreement for the construction of the Harare Airport road was made between the City of Harare and the 1st Respondent. That agreement was negotiated under an illegal environment where a commission was created despite the fact that a few weeks after the election of March 2008 lawfully elected Councillors existed,” said Markham.

However when the matter went to the Supreme Court on appeal, it is now evident from the Respondents’ own documents that pressure was made to bear on the City of Harare, through a directive from the 9th Respondent (President Emmerson Mnangagwa) in the form of a letter dated the 15th of May 2019 referred to in paragraph 72.4 of the 1st Respondent’s (Augur Investments) affidavit to withdraw all proceedings and settle,” added Markham.

He further revealed that Tatiana Aleshina was actively involved in pushing Local Government minister July Moyo and Permanent Secretary in the ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Virginia Mabhiza to visit Mnangagwa in order to force an out of court settlement which eventually saw Sharpe being given land for work he did not do.

“What she is in fact saying is that she uses her influenced to extract a forced settlement on the City of Harare. This is State Capture.

“She is therefore unfairly and mendaciously, name dropping and fingering innocent public officials none more important than the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe.

“She is in fact saying to this Honourable Court that do not touch the Deed of Settlement. It was made at State House,” further noted Markham.

The now Harare North legislator is embroiled in a desperate bid to save City of Harare land from being taken by Sharpe who has emerged as one of the biggest land barons in the country with over 700 hectares scattered across the city.

Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance leader President Nelson Chamisa has denounced the killing of innocent civilians in Uganda.

On Wednesday President Chamisa retweeted a statement released by the MDC Alliance:

“We stand with the people of Uganda who have endured gross human rights violations since the disputed 2021 elections. We urge the regime in Uganda to stop the atrocities & unlawful killings.

We stand with the people of Ethiopia & hope for an end to the conflict in the Tigray region.

The need for justice & accountability for atrocities committed is urgent. May the guns be silenced.”

President Chamisa added :
“Freedom is a gift from God and Africa is our heritage. We will fight for both. Happy New Africa”

Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance has pointed out that registering to vote is the only way of ending Zanu PF tyranny.

The MDC Alliance is unrolling massive voter education programmes in and out of the country.

See full statement below:

If you don’t vote ,you automatically lose the fundamental right to complain against Zanupf looting and smuggling, Mdc Alliance Namibia Namibia echoes!

26 May 2021

Mdc Alliance Namibia leadership and membership converged during the weekend to re-energise the base bracing to embrace the #CitizensConvergence4Change. As a committed and dedicated external assembly, we concurred that the future of our motherland is in our hands through our ability to register to vote in astronomical numbers to avert Zanupf rigging. Mdc Alliance Namibia Rundu Branch Spokesperson, Robson Ruhanya, made it clear to the social democrats available that they should go and register to vote in order to halt the corruption, closure of democratic space and illegal convictions of social transformers in Zimbabwe.

We resolved that the whole district should make registering to vote sexy and the norm so as to stop the routine rigging of the will of the people in 2023.

Revolutionaries in Namibia figured out that ,Zanupf is scared of a massive voter registration campaign because it will obviously make the breastfeeding of the ballot box a mammoth task. It was made clear to the constituency in Rundu, Namibia that the world is run by those who confront the devil through a serious commitment to fulfil the fundamental civic duty to vote. All members and leaders agreed to go and register to vote, vote come 2023 and further pledged to defend the vote constitutionally from Zanupf electoral fraudsters.

The democratic project in Namibia led by the astute leader President Advocate Nelson Chamisa ( Wamba Dia Wamba) vowed to continue with the #DiasporaVoteCampaign regardless of their full-blown campaign to go and register to vote at the nearest border towns.

Moreover, dictators have often fabricated high turn-outs in showcase elections for the purpose of rigging capitalising on voter apathy. Breastfeeding of the ballot transpires through voter suppression where the opposition members are intimidated, arbitrarily arrested and discouraged or prevented from exercising their significant right to vote. It was amicably concluded that this time the youths must dominate all polling stations, voting out looting, graft, nepotism, belly politics and gross abuse of universal fundamental basic human freedoms to associate and assemble to deliberate on serious national issues bedevilling our fatherless fatherland. The social transformers agreed that if one does not register to vote, he/she’s right to complain against Zanupf’s gross misgovernance will grabbed from him/her.

Furthermore, the Secretary General Simbarashe Ndoda made it categorically clear that when Zimbabwe was still in the Commonwealth, Zimbabweans were offered 2 year working visas in Britain. The route has been closed because of Zanupf misrule manifesting in the high levels of human butchery perpetrated by the state-sponsored militia. He went on to encourage the membership of Mdc Alliance Namibia to go register and vote in the motherland to open up closed global opportunities as a sure way of fullfilling our #GlobalAgenda. This is amid a high unemployment rate that has affected mainly the jobless youths in the country who are scratching their heads for a single nutritious meal per day.

More so , the Secretary General of the Women’s Assembly , Tarisai Nhira came in to sensitise women on their role in the Citizens Convergence for Change.

She identified women as central links between their unemployed children and their husbands. Since women have an undoubted influence in the lives of their vulnerable children and husbands who are scattered around the globe seeking better livelihoods, they must encourage and mobilise all victims of Zanupf thugocratic regime to register to vote, vote and be ready to defend the vote. The diaspora reflected great zeal to vote in 2023 after the revolutionary message from the women’s assembly.

In a nutshell, all social democrats around the globe should display their appetite to confront Zanupf through the vote. Genuine revolutionaries must fight for political and electoral reforms whilst registered to vote to counter rigging which has become a Zimbabwean election malady since 2002. Lets avoid contested elections by voting in our huge numbers.

RegisterToVote

DefendTheVote

DiasporaVoteIsANon-negotiableRight

FreeCdeMako

FreeTunga

FreeLast

FreeAllPrisonersOfConscience

CitizensConvergence4Change

MdcAllianceRunduBranch

SpokespersonRobsonRuhanya

Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance Youth Assembly leader, Obey Sithole has challenged the Zanu PF regime to release jailed political activist Makomborero Haruvizishe.

Writing on Facebook on Wednesday Sithole boldly declared:

“Sunungura Mako!!!
His freedom matters to us all, an attack to him is an attack to all of us.
Zimbabwe shall be free.”

Zimbabwean youth
Simbarashe Elias has also urged young people to support President Chamisa’s desire to restore the nation’s dignity and prosperity by registering to vote in numbers:

” THE YOUTH OF ZIMBABWE I GREET YOU ALL IN JESUS NAME.

I have come to beg you to register to vote- we have to create a future we all want in Zimbabwe come 2023.

Let’s give voting another chance. I’m very sure if we register to vote and then vote all of us youths. I’m sure they will not be able to rig the elections we need over 6 million votes from the Youths only for President Nelson Chamisa.

We can choose what we want for our country and I’m saying let’s start by registering. CHANGE IS COMING AND WE CAN MAKE CHANGE TO COME LET’S DO IT…

Tinashe Sambiri|MDC Alliance Youth Assembly leader, Obey Sithole has challenged the Zanu PF regime to release jailed political activist Makomborero Haruvizishe.

Writing on Facebook on Wednesday Sithole boldly declared:

“Sunungura Mako!!!
His freedom matters to us all, an attack to him is an attack to all of us.
Zimbabwe shall be free.”

Zimbabwean youth
Simbarashe Elias has also urged young people to support President Chamisa’s vision to restore the nation’s dignity and prosperity by registering to vote in numbers:

” THE YOUTH OF ZIMBABWE I GREET YOU ALL IN JESUS NAME.

I have come to beg you to register to vote- we have to create a future we all want in Zimbabwe come 2023.

Let’s give voting another chance. I’m very sure if we register to vote and then vote all of us youths. I’m sure they will not be able to rig the elections we need over 6 million votes from the Youths only for President Nelson Chamisa.

We can choose what we want for our country and I’m saying let’s start by registering. CHANGE IS COMING AND WE CAN MAKE CHANGE TO COME LET’S DO IT…

Own Correspondent
|A Non-Governmental Organisation Christian Care this week distributed menstrual hygiene management aid to 800 needy people in Masvingo as the menstrual hygiene day nears.

Menstrual hygiene management kits comprising Sanitary pads, sanitary bags, washing soaps, tooth pastes, tooth brushes, pants and combs were provided to the needy people in Masvingo urban by Christian Care at a ceremony held at the City of Masvingo Civic Centre gardens.

Masvingo City Council, government departments staff and Christian Care staff attended the ceremony.
Christian Care, Projects Officer, Mr Aaron Ndaa, in his remarks said his organisation would not leave the residents of Masvingo alone at this trying time.

Noting that COVID-19 is worldwide pandemic that had griped the entire world, Ndaa said the NGO would continue to support the needy masses in Masvingo.
Christian Care and City of Masvingo, he observed, were two brotherly organisations with an amicable working relationship which has produced fruits under the WASH Services in Emergencies project.

Speaking on the occasion, programs co-ordinator, Mr Albert Zvinorova said menstrual health and hygiene is at the core of women/girl’s health and as such it is their fundamental right and imperative for them to access proper menstrual products and practice menstrual hygiene every time, they undergo the experience.
Menstrual Hygiene Day is to be celebrated on the 28th of May 2021.

Tinashe Sambiri|The MDC Alliance has pointed out that registering to vote is the only way of ending Zanu PF tyranny.

The MDC Alliance is unrolling massive voter education programmes in and out of the country.

See full statement below:

If you don’t vote ,you automatically lose the fundamental right to complain against Zanupf looting and smuggling, Mdc Alliance Namibia Namibia echoes!

26 May 2021

Mdc Alliance Namibia leadership and membership converged during the weekend to re-energise the base bracing to embrace the #CitizensConvergence4Change. As a committed and dedicated external assembly, we concurred that the future of our motherland is in our hands through our ability to register to vote in astronomical numbers to avert Zanupf rigging. Mdc Alliance Namibia Rundu Branch Spokesperson, Robson Ruhanya, made it clear to the social democrats available that they should go and register to vote in order to halt the corruption, closure of democratic space and illegal convictions of social transformers in Zimbabwe.

We resolved that the whole district should make registering to vote sexy and the norm so as to stop the routine rigging of the will of the people in 2023.

Revolutionaries in Namibia figured out that ,Zanupf is scared of a massive voter registration campaign because it will obviously make the breastfeeding of the ballot box a mammoth task. It was made clear to the constituency in Rundu, Namibia that the world is run by those who confront the devil through a serious commitment to fulfil the fundamental civic duty to vote. All members and leaders agreed to go and register to vote, vote come 2023 and further pledged to defend the vote constitutionally from Zanupf electoral fraudsters. The democratic project in Namibia led by the astute leader President Advocate Nelson Chamisa ( Wamba Dia Wamba) vowed to continue with the #DiasporaVoteCampaign regardless of their full-blown campaign to go and register to vote at the nearest border towns.

Moreover, dictators have often fabricated high turn-outs in showcase elections for the purpose of rigging capitalising on voter apathy. Breastfeeding of the ballot transpires through voter suppression where the opposition members are intimidated, arbitrarily arrested and discouraged or prevented from exercising their significant right to vote. It was amicably concluded that this time the youths must dominate all polling stations, voting out looting, graft, nepotism, belly politics and gross abuse of universal fundamental basic human freedoms to associate and assemble to deliberate on serious national issues bedevilling our fatherless fatherland. The social transformers agreed that if one does not register to vote, he/she’s right to complain against Zanupf’s gross misgovernance will grabbed from him/her.

Furthermore, the Secretary General Simbarashe Ndoda made it categorically clear that when Zimbabwe was still in the Commonwealth, Zimbabweans were offered 2 year working visas in Britain. The route has been closed because of Zanupf misrule manifesting in the high levels of human butchery perpetrated by the state-sponsored militia. He went on to encourage the membership of Mdc Alliance Namibia to go register and vote in the motherland to open up closed global opportunities as a sure way of fullfilling our #GlobalAgenda. This is amid a high unemployment rate that has affected mainly the jobless youths in the country who are scratching their heads for a single nutritious meal per day.

More so , the Secretary General of the Women’s Assembly , Tarisai Nhira came in to sensitise women on their role in the Citizens Convergence for Change. She identified women as central links between their unemployed children and their husbands. Since women have an undoubted influence in the lives of their vulnerable children and husbands who are scattered around the globe seeking better livelihoods, they must encourage and mobilise all victims of Zanupf thugocratic regime to register to vote, vote and be ready to defend the vote. The diaspora reflected great zeal to vote in 2023 after the revolutionary message from the women’s assembly.

In a nutshell, all social democrats around the globe should display their appetite to confront Zanupf through the vote. Genuine revolutionaries must fight for political and electoral reforms whilst registered to vote to counter rigging which has become a Zimbabwean election malady since 2002. Lets avoid contested elections by voting in our huge numbers.

RegisterToVote

DefendTheVote

DiasporaVoteIsANon-negotiableRight

FreeCdeMako

FreeTunga

FreeLast

FreeAllPrisonersOfConscience

CitizensConvergence4Change

MdcAllianceRunduBranch

SpokespersonRobsonRuhanya

Zanu-PF politburo member Tshinga Dube has described the situation in the country as abnormal as it could not sustain pensioners, hence the old guard’s reluctance to go into retirement.

The late President Robert Mugabe was often criticised for “recycling” the party’s old guard in Cabinet and the party.

The same script reads true under President Emmerson Mnangagwa, where the old guard, in office for years, still holds influential positions in the party and government.

Dube said the old guard should not be blamed for clinging to party and government posts as government pension was not enough to sustain them in retirement.

“You are saying we recycle the old guard, yes because the old guard too needs that power because they need to eat and live well,” Dube told journalists at the Bulawayo Media Centre during an event to commemorate Africa Day.

Dube, who turns 80 in a month, said he would still be in office “because my pension is so small that it will never satisfy my family”.

“So, I am forced to remain working, but in normal countries where things are done properly, you find that you retire when you get to the age of 50-60 because you are sure that you have enough pension that will satisfy you until you die,” he said.

“So, these are the circumstances that force people like us not to completely disappear from the scene because I will starve.”

Mugabe often slept in meetings as he resisted calls to step down over old age.

A number of ministers have also been caught napping on camera while attending international conferences and other State events mostly due to old age.

According to Dube, a former minister of Political Detainees and Restrictees, the Zanu-PF old guard will never willingly give up political power to the youth.

“You say we are depriving young people of getting into influential positions. Let me tell you one thing, power is not given. It is taken. You can never be given power on a silver platter no matter what,” he said.

“That’s why even now when we had to take this power we have, we had to fight. Many people died. Some had to be in prison for a long time. So young people like yourself, if you believe that you must be given power, you are wrong, you must work for it.”

-Newsday

Own Correspondent
|A Non-Governmental Organisation Christian Care this week distributed menstrual hygiene management aid to 800 needy people in Masvingo as the menstrual hygiene day nears.

Menstrual hygiene management kits comprising Sanitary pads, sanitary bags, washing soaps, tooth pastes, tooth brushes, pants and combs were provided to the needy people in Masvingo urban by Christian Care at a ceremony held at the City of Masvingo Civic Centre gardens.

Masvingo City Council, government departments staff and Christian Care staff attended the ceremony.
Christian Care, Projects Officer, Mr Aaron Ndaa, in his remarks said his organisation would not leave the residents of Masvingo alone at this trying time.

Noting that COVID-19 is worldwide pandemic that had griped the entire world, Ndaa said the NGO would continue to support the needy masses in Masvingo.
Christian Care and City of Masvingo, he observed, were two brotherly organisations with an amicable working relationship which has produced fruits under the WASH Services in Emergencies project.

Speaking on the occasion, programs co-ordinator, Mr Albert Zvinorova said menstrual health and hygiene is at the core of women/girl’s health and as such it is their fundamental right and imperative for them to access proper menstrual products and practice menstrual hygiene every time, they undergo the experience.
Menstrual Hygiene Day is to be celebrated on the 28th of May 2021.

The Canadian Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Christina Buchan, has expressed concern at how journalists in Zimbabwe are treated, noting that media workers continued to face violations, despite them being declared essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Journalists, even though they were considered essential workers during the pandemic continued to face detention and arrest,” she said at a World Press Freedom Day roundtable meeting held at the Canadian ambassador’s residence last Friday.

“There have also been concerns on proposed laws such as the Cybersecurity and Data Protection Bill, with some human rights activists fearing that the Bill contains some provisions that will obstruct the role of the media in the fight against corruption.”

Ambassador Buchan noted that attacks and acts of intimidation against journalists and other media professionals were on the rise across the world.

“There is also a trend toward increased restrictions on free expression online, resulting from measures taken by some governments to censor or control digital technologies,” she lamented.

In 2021, MISA Zimbabwe recorded at least 52 journalists that had either been harassed, intimidated, assaulted or jailed.

The roundtable meeting was organised jointly by the Canadian embassy and MISA Zimbabwe.

Ambassador Buchan noted that there had been some progress though in terms of the regulatory framework, particularly the repeal of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) and the enactment of the Freedom of Information Act in 2020.

This year marked the 30^th anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration, the seminal document that gave birth to World Press Freedom Day.

This year’s celebrations were held in Windhoek, Namibia, where MISA Zimbabwe played a prominent role, with its director, Tabani Moyo, acting as the moderator for the Africa Forum.

MISA Zimbabwe also launched the inaugural Southern Africa Press Freedom Report